{"id":4540,"date":"2023-07-24T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2023-07-24T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:06:13","slug":"rfk-jr-says-corporate-media-has-attacked-him-even-more-than-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4540","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr says \u2018corporate media\u2019 has attacked him \u2018even more than President Trump\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-114.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4541\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"931\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-114.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-114.png 931w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-114-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-114-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-114-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-114-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox News over the weekend he has been &#8220;slammed&#8221; in a way that is &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; even compared to former President Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said Sunday that he is being attacked by the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\">mainstream media<\/a>&nbsp;in an \u201cunprecedented\u201d way that rivals and even goes beyond the way that former President Trump has been scrutinized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s interesting to me because I\u2019ve been really, you know, slammed in a way that I think is unprecedented even more than&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\">President Trump<\/a>&nbsp;was slammed by the mainstream, by the corporate media,\u201d Kennedy told Fox Business\u2019s Maria Bartiromo on \u201cSunday Morning Futures\u201d this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut the Harris Harvard poll [The Harvard CAPS \/ Harris Poll] came out \u2013 the gold standard poll \u2013 I think 2,500 people yesterday showed that my popularity is greater than\u2026 I think 20 points than any other political candidate so, somehow the American people are hearing what I\u2019m saying,\u201d Kennedy added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy told Bartiromo that his unfavorability ratings should be \u201coff the charts\u201d if everyone believed the negative press against him, but that has not been the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI mean, listen, if I believe the stuff that\u2019s written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream sites, I would not have any, I would definitely not vote for me and\u2026 I would think I was a very despicable person,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy has faced stiff scrutiny from mainstream media outlets over his opposition to government censorship, his push for more transparency and testing in the vaccine authorization process. He was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rfk-jr-denies-being-antisemite-expresses-regret-covid-19-comments\" target=\"_blank\">accused of antisemitism<\/a>\u00a0following a comment he made about bioweapons being developed by countries, including the U.S. and China, and how there was an \u201cargument\u201d that COVID may have been \u201cethnically targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt had nothing to do with antisemitic, and it\u2019s not a conspiracy theory,\u201d Kennedy told Fox News Digital. \u201cI simply said that we ought to be worried about the billions of dollars that are being spent by the most powerful governments in the world to develop ethnic bioweapons, and that this is happening now all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI cited a 2021 paper by the Cleveland Clinic that suggested that COVID-19 was not deliberately created in this way but that it disproportionately impacted certain races and the races that were most impacted because of the docking mechanism configuration on the furin cleave was most compatible with\u2026 people of African descent and with Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese and Finns and Ashkenazi Jews,\u201d he explained. \u201cI never suggested that that was deliberately made by the Chinese or anybody else. It\u2019s just a fact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy\u2019s polling numbers have remained steady since he launched his 2024 presidential campaign, despite the media attacks, and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rfk-jr-remains-thorn-bidens-side-2024-polls-show-kennedy-holding-sizable-chunk-dem-voters\">recent Fox News polling<\/a>&nbsp;shows the challenger commanding 16% of the Democratic primary vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent Quinnipiac poll showed that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nearly-half-us-voters-would-consider-third-party-presidential-candidate-2024-new-poll-finds\" target=\"_blank\">nearly half<\/a>\u00a0of U.S. voters would consider a third party candidate, although Kennedy has stressed that he is only interested in running as a Democrat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/rfk-jr-says-corporate-media-has-attacked-him-even-more-than-president-trump\/\">https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/rfk-jr-says-corporate-media-has-attacked-him-even-more-than-president-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox News over the weekend he has been &#8220;slammed&#8221; in a way that is &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; even compared to former President Trump. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said Sunday that he is being attacked by the&nbsp;mainstream media&nbsp;in an \u201cunprecedented\u201d way that rivals and even goes beyond the way that former President Trump has been scrutinized. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to me because I\u2019ve been really, you know, slammed in a way that I think is unprecedented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}